Dr. Frankel was the Chief Technology Officer
at Incentive
Targeting. The company developed a web application that allows
behaviorally-targeted promotional campaigns to be created and
managed, and provides powerful analytics to measure the success of
those campaigns. Incentive Targeting was acquired by Google.

Dr. Frankel's professional experience includes work at International
Business Machines (IBM)T. J. Watson Research Center where he contributed to the 801 computer project -- the first RISC computer, XeroxPalo Alto
Research Center (PARC) where he pioneered the use of distributed computers to execute a single automatically-parallelized program, the Corporate Research Group at Digital
Equipment Corporation (Digital) where he conducted research in software systems for parallel computers, and Thinking Machines Corporation where he designed the C* Language, led the team that implemented the initial compilers for the language, was part of the team that designed the interconnection network for the CM5 supercomputer, and ported Unix onto the CM5.
In addition to Frankel and Associates, he has also started two other companies: CommerceTone (acquired by Mercantec) which brought large company eMarketing services to small businesses and Auripay (acquired by Cyota which was then acquired by RSA Security) which provided security to credit card holders.